Back at the Dino-house, particularly Mai wasn't happy about how things turned out.

"Come on, Mai-chan." Ryouga tried to comfort her, "It's not your fault."

"Yes it is!" she cried, "If I hadn't found this, you and everyone else wouldn't have been in trouble."

"You couldn't have known this would happen." Ryouga tried to convince her, "Such things just happen."

"In the normal world anyway." Yukito remarked.

"You're a lot of help." Ryouga complained.

"Then look at it this way." Nakadai started, "Had we not been there, somebody else may have gotten hurt instead. You should be happy we got there."

This seemed to change something about Mai, but not entirely: "I... if Doyle-sama would forgive me for this, I..."

"Doyle-sama?" Ryouga sounded surprised to hear her call him that.

"Speaking of which, where is he?" Yukito asked.

"Is he gonna take off without telling us anything now?" Ryouga wondered.

"Maybe we shouldn't have been so pushy." Ranru whined.

"He has found a family here, but they appeared eager to rid themselves of him." Ryunnosuke figured, "On top of that, he only just found out that his real family is dead. Give him some time and I'm sure he'll come around."

What neither one of them knew, was that Doyle was on the Dino-house's roof. Like he did earlier that day, he was in conversation with Roxton.

"Don't you think this is plain insulting?" Doyle asked, "That they wouldn't wait for me to make my decision?"

"Think of it this way." Roxton suggested, "They want to know you, and thought that your family could provide you with answers."

"But all we found out is that my family is dead." Doyle said.

"But at least they tried something." Roxton reasoned, "A real friend would do that, or at least that's what I think."

"With no memories of our past, we can't know anything for sure." Doyle remarked.

"Be that as it may..." Roxton replied, "... we can't blame them for trying anything. Especially not Ranru."

Upon hearing her name, Doyle agreed: "No. Let's blame Hammond for trying to capture us."

"Or even Mai." Roxton added, "She's just a young human child. She does not yet fully comprehend how the world works."

"I suppose not." Doyle agreed to this as well, "But with them going with the first clue they find, without paying close attention to details first, or even ask me if I want to see my family first... it's all just..."

"I know." Roxton replied, "But if it weren't for them, where would we be now?"

Doyle thought about this: "I don't know. We'd probably be whatever we were before this."

"Dead?" Roxton asked.

"Yes."

"And that would have been better?"

Doyle sighed: "I don't know. We were made the way we were for a reason, but now that were free from Hammond, what's our purpose to this world now?"

Roxton had no answer to this at all, nor did Doyle expected to hear one either.

THE END